Yes, in Yuanqu, Shanxi, 73-year-old Liu and his wife picked up strange stones by the Yellow River for more than 20 years, and also found the local plum blossom stone. Climbing mountains and wading every day, the old man is strong. He said that he collected 700 or 800 strange stones and went to more than 60 cities to participate in exhibitions in recent years. He also sells strange stones for his two grandchildren to go to college.

1999, the old man was very happy when he sold the first stone, which is worth 500 yuan. Since then, I have regarded this as a career. The old man also showed his collection of the zodiac, and each stone had pictures of the zodiac. The old man said that it was not difficult to collect all the zodiac signs, but it took him two years to collect them.

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Recently, when the photographer was traveling to the countryside in the south of Shanxi, he met two old people who were working in the fields. The old man hunched his back and carried a bucket to water the saplings. Seeing their hard work, his film partners stopped the car in a hurry, and we heard a sad and helpless story.

After learning that this uncle is 78 years old this year, he said that he and his wife drove a three-wheeled motorcycle to the field at 7 o'clock this morning to replant the pepper fields that lacked seedlings. There are about 65,438+00 trees. It's been done for more than two hours, and it's not finished yet. He is too old to do it, so he needs to have a rest.

After a short rest, the old man began to work again. He said there was no way to stop working now. Many years ago, his only son died of illness at the age of 50, leaving a grandson and a granddaughter to support. Granddaughter has already worked. Now my grandson is still in college, which is more than 20 thousand a year.

Apple trees used to grow in this land. The year before last, when I saw that apples didn't make money, I changed them to pepper, only 1 mu. Zanthoxylum bungeanum seedlings have grown for 65,438+0 years. This year, I found that about 10 trees didn't survive. Now it's spring, so I came to replant with my wife today.

Grandpa said that his wife's health was not as good as her own, and her legs and feet were not good, so she worked alone in the field. Digging, burying and watering may seem easy, but for an old man who is almost 80 years old, it is very difficult. The old man's son was buried under the cypress tree in the middle of the photo.

The old man said that he lived mainly for his grandchildren. Without a son, the burden of life falls on himself and his wife. After graduation, his granddaughter can work. Now that his grandson can graduate from college this year, he and his wife can breathe a sigh of relief.